Commodities investors panicked and pulled £1 billion out of China during the stock crash

Commodities speculators panicked in June as the Chinese market
rout took hold, and pulled the money they had just put in.

According to a note from Barclays analysts, inflows into
financial derivatives linked to commodities totalled more than $1
billion (£650 million) in April and May, but that was quickly
reversed in June, as investors pulled $1.6 billion (£1 billion)
during the crash.

Here are the main points:

Energy had the biggest outflow at more than $900 million
(£581 million), as investors lost interest in oil due to
consistently weak prices.

Precious metals lost more than $350 million (£226 million).

Agriculture and base metals saw outflows of about $200
million (£129 million) each.

This chart also shows the just how fast commodities prices
collapsed compared to 2014:

Barclays

When compared to the Shanghai composite stock market, you
can see just how closely linked commdoties and the Chinese stock
market is: